I use a pc, the comand for it is (ctrl+alt). I belive on a mac is (comand+alt). To reset the screen is (ctrl+m) and i hate that! The letter "m" is one million miles away from "ctrl". I have stop drawing and travel all the way where "m" is. Oh yeah the red disk!

If you make your own custom key assignments you can assign some to disc spinning. When I started fooling with Toon Boom, I found myself very quickly making my own custom keymap that was a hybrid of Illustrator, Toon Boom, and - of all things - Deluxe Paint.

Not sure about your version of toonboom but in mine it's ctrl,shift and z to rotate the canvas. And when you let go of the shortcut buttons the disk should disappear. Think you can remap them to something easier than that combination. Oh and the select shortcut is the ! key. Weird I know!

The image of the animation disc dissapears when you release the key command. Its still stupid that they show the disc though. I only don't know the key command for resetting the rotation back to normal.

On my windows keyboard it's the Alt Gr button right to the spacebar. I guess on an Apple keyboard it could be the "option"-button on the right of the spacebar! Give that a try! Otherwise maybe the command button right to the spacebar!

These are the shortcuts for Animate Pro, I haven't used Animate but they may be transferable.[These shortcuts are for PC]Shortcut for select is Alt + STo rotate hold Ctrl + Alt plus left mouse button to rotate - let go of ctrl and alt when you have the angle you want and the drawing disc overlay will disappear. To reset the drawing view press Shift + M.

These are the shortcuts for Animate Pro, I haven't used Animate but they may be transferable.[These shortcuts are for PC]Shortcut for select is Alt + STo rotate hold Ctrl + Alt plus left mouse button to rotate - let go of ctrl and alt when you have the angle you want and the drawing disc overlay will disappear. To reset the drawing view press Shift + M.

You can also use the select tool (as a lasso) by holding Ctrl-But the default shortcut is Alt+V- You can change this in preferences under shortcuts>drawing mode. There is also a blank spot to put a shortcut for the rotate tool if you'd like.

On Toon Boom Studio, the key combination to use the rotation tool is Ctrl-cmd (found on the left hand side of the keyboard). Holding those buttons down will activate the rotation tool. Does it work on Toon Boom Animate as well?

Hey John, I started using ArtRage (which is just around $30) and it has an “R” key for rotate. I love this program and can’t believe I passed it up all these years. I’m an avid user of Photoshop, Painter, Sketchbook Pro, Flash, and ToonBoom too. I actually stop using ToonBoom over Flash which I feel does a few things better... But if you haven’t checked out ArtRage, give it a try. It’s great for just painting on the wacom or sketching stuff up. Fun interface too. And for the price it can’t be beat.

BTW, in the preferences they have some shortcuts listed, but it seems incomplete as I couldn't find the rotation key command there. You could probably find any key command info w/ google searches or on the animate message boards. That's how I originally found the rotation key command cause I had the same exact thoughts as you, and figured there HAD to be a key command, and there was.

Sure hope ToonBoom listens to you. The kind of detail you provided in your post could really help them improve.

In terms of submitting samples for your consideration, is ToonBoom Animate the only acceptable program? I got ToonBoom Studio some time ago to get my feet wet. Later a ToonBoom rep told me that Studio files aren't compatible with Animate.

You can set it the rotate view preference to a single key on the keyboard in Animate 2 ( But not in Animate , i believe !! )

Goto: preferences/shortcuts/general

Click on: Rotate View CCW or CW to highlight/select

Next click in the clear box next to Clear/Default , screen right and press your chosen short cut key.

Press OK before you exit ( Won`t work otherwise )

I usually have Z+X as my zoom in and out , and rotate views set to C+V , that way I never have to move my left hand for most used commands like Ctrl-S , Ctrl-Z , zoom in & out and the drawing view rotates.

If you're using Apple's Mac OS X (not Windows), you can create application wide or system wide shortcut which enable you to turn the menu command into shortcut that meant exactly what you wanted originally. I just assigned cmd+3 and cm+4 for rotate View CW and rotate View CCW in this way. That is why I love Apple's products. Macbook, iMac, Mac mini, Mac Pro. In System Preferences of Yosemite, you can use Application shortcut in Keyboard icon in this way!!!